kryogen1c

> no other reason than ignorance

Well, speaking of ignorance!

Vaccines are not perfectly safe. All medicine can harm, and vaccines are no exception. Mandating dozens of vaccines to billions of children is forcing parents, under threat of state-sponsored violence, to injure their children.

There are 10s of thousands of VAERS cases in the US per year. Now multiply that by 20 and we're in the ballpark for number of children youre so cavalierly arguing to force harm upon.

Now, there are diseases where vaccines make sense. However, the blanket statement "inject into your newborn whatever the government tells you" is pretty obviously stupid in my opinion; there are plenty of cases of known-toxins taking years to get removed from market with no corporate repercussions - the incentive structures arent perfect. See DDT, leaded gasoline, asbestos, Teflon, uranium mill tailings, cases too numerous to mention. However much you trust the government to do their best, there are agile corporations getting paid handsomely to outmaneuver them.

For my children, we make a disease-by-disease risk/reward determination and do a slower schedule once they're a little older.

>That's probably because we have yet to discover any universal moral standards

This argument has always seemed obviously false to me. You're sure acting like theres a moral truth - or do you claim your life is unguided and random? Did you flip your hitler/pope coin today and act accordingly? Play Russian roulette a couple times because what's the difference?

Life has value; the rest is derivative. How exactly to maximize life and it's quality in every scenario are not always clear, but the foundational moral is.

Im inclined to agree with most of what you say, although I dont follow economics or current events closely enough to have a strong opinion.

My point is that your thoughtful response about reliable continuity, both inter- and intra- president, is not present in a lot of the comments.

Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better. This is a straw man, no?

Tariffs are a mid-long term strategy to encourage onshoring business, for reasons including military, national security, and political influence on foreign powers.

This is a complicated topic involving the global economy and evolving intercountry landscape. All these slam dunk takes are incomplete to the point of being wrong - and inflammatory.

> odd position [...] offense isn't as bad if the difficulties of committing the crime have been removed or reduced

Not really, intent is a part of the crime. If the barrier for crime is extremely small, the crime itself is less egregious.

Planning a robbery is not the same as picking up a wallet on the sidewalk. This is a feature, not a bug.

> weird keyboard layout

Classic lenovo. Some models have FN as the most bottom left key, instead of ctrl. Gotta be the worst design decision ive ever seen. Everyone copy+pastes and finds, whoever thought that was a good idea really needs relieved of decision making power.

The fact that, on expensive hardware, I can hit windows+r and start typing before the run box renders/loads is staggering, it beggars belief.

Im generally a microsoft shill, but theyre really on the down hill slope. windows 11 is truly a masterpiece of changes no one asked for or wants, Teams is the least reliable piece of business software I've ever seen. New outlook does not have feature parity with old outlook and has the same bargain bin apple ux stylings as w11.

Maybe ive finally crested the age gap and im officially a dinosaur, but God damn every microsoft product is worse than it used to be.

Oh goodness, wheres my head at, thank you. Too late to edit, but you are correct. Memory exfiltration, potentially containing passwords and secrets, leading to privilege escalation. Not an RCE.

>I think you mistook "MongoDB"

I must have, the sentence does not make sense to me. Here it is, shortened: "this vuln in mongodb server does not impact mongodb, managed mongodb server, or our systems". If the first clause is referring to their systems, why do they say the same thing in the third clause?

Also i just noticed, how come they say atlas wasn't affected but say they patched it in their timeline?

>give them the benefit of doubt that they'd have said so

Statements like this are basically legal admissions of guilt, i expect there to be as little truth as possible.

>You are familiar with things like SOC and SIEM, and you're confused by this?

I work in IT, I'm not a coder... so yes :) hundreds of hours seems excessive. Remember, this isn't a safe deployment or rollout plan, that's the next block of time. Hundreds of man hours is more than one person's full month of work. Do you expect it to take you a whole, dedicated month to fix 1 bug at a time?

>That's what SIEMs do if they're adequately configured.

This is a bit of a no true Scotsman. The intended error log is "error: {cstring payload nullterm} broke" and the mongobleed log is "error: {cstring payload MISSINGNULLTERM cstring payload nullterm} broke". Those two things look identical, how is any amount of configuration supposed to catch that?

>proactive [...] security program

Idk how proactive patching an exploited-in-the-wild unauth RCE is, but pr statements gonna pr i guess.

>This [...] vuln is not a breach or compromise of MongoDB

IANAL, but this seems like a pretty strong stance to take? Who exactly are you blaming here?

>vulnerability was discovered internally >detected the issue

Interesting choice of words. I wonder if their SIEM/SOC discovered a compromise, or if someone detected a tweet.

>December 12–14 – We worked continuously

It took 72 clock hours, assumably hundreds of man hours, to fix a malloc use after free and cstring null term bug? Maybe the user input field length part was a major design point??

>dec 12 "detect" the issue, dec 19 cve, dec 23 first post

Boy this sure seems like a long time for a first communication for a guaranteed compromise if internet facing bug.

Not sure there's a security tool in the world that would stop data exfiltration via protocol error logs.

I think the greatest crime social media has committed is convincing everyone their opinion matters, the idea that research/journalism is hot-swappable with fact-checking.

Sometimes in conversation Israel or tariffs or whatever comes and I'm always like... idk? What do I, have a PHD? I know enough to know they're complex issues and the worst thing i could do is have a strong opinion

And how do you think vehicle ownership compares between those two groups?

This is pretty much dead on. I live in a rural part of the US and there are tons of old, worked-on trucks. The idea that there might be an all-electric f150 hanging out in 40 years is, frankly, laughable.

I know a lot of city kids think trucks are some obnoxious luxury good, but they're basically a functional requirement in most of the (very large) country.

>But don't tell me that Katie Ledecky didn't put in a huge amount of effort

Perhaps you should try reading the article, because it doesnt say that. Its a 5 minute read, although perhaps you shouldn't bother because most others dont appear to have either.

Edit: actually, I daresay the contention of the article is the exact opposite: its likely that ledecky put in the least effort out of anyone.

>Jazz people can be such losers sometimes

This has never occurred to me before, but I don't think ive ever met a jazz lover I liked.

This surprises me. Ill think about this a bit, perhaps a cognitive psychological rabbit hole is in order.

> 2013, the last pre-subscription version

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

I found this using my secret inside IT knowledge: searched "buy office perpetual" on the internet.

I know microsoft is the evil soulless megacorp on HN, but the least you could do is attack them for true things instead of totally made up, has-never-ever-been-true things.

I went to Ignite a few weeks ago, and the theme of the event and most talks was "look at how we're leveraging AI in this product to add value".

Separately, the theme from talking to Every. Single. Person on the buy-side was gigantic eye roll yes I cant wait for AI to solve all my problems.

Companies I support are being directed from their presidents to use ai, literally a solution in search of a problem.

> gambling/loot box [...] legit ethical concerns

I've never understood this argument. Dopaminergic and attention pathways/systems are under full assault from every angle, and parents give their 6 year olds phones, and people take a moral stance against... loot boxes?

Thats like taking a moral stance against flavors in alcohol. I kinda think youre missing the point.

> “It’s shocking to see people blocking traffic, taking possession of the public space without a permit, without warning, and then turning our streets, our parks, our public squares into places of worship,” said Roberge.

It is fucking insane that the response to people blocking traffic in prayer is to outlaw prayer.

Secularism is giving equal treatment to all religions; this isn't Secularism, this is a thinly veiled, fanatical, Crusade against religion.

Wouldn't this model price out poor people? Doesn't that mean the most vulnerable people cant afford the services when they need them most, ie max hot/cold?

Changing the utility to a market sort of defeats the point of trying to optimize the utility.

The comparison was not accidental. I expect a similar, meaningless outcome for poisoning children.

> a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to TIME. "The full record will show that for over a decade, we have listened to parents, researched issues that matter most, and made real changes to protect teens

Omegalol. Cigarette maker introduces filter, cares about your health.

> But what is the solution?

Don't allow the commoditization of public imagery, ie being a tourist is legal and being a business is not.

> They've poisoned the internet

And what of the people that ravenously support ads and ad-supported content, instead of paying?

What of the consumptive public? Are they not responsible for their choices?

I do not consume algorithmic content, I do not have any social media (unless you count HN for either).

You can't have it both ways. Lead by example, stop using the poison and find friends that aren't addicted. Build an offline community.

Yes, to rephrase: you dont need ddos protection if you dont get ddos'd (just dont get attacked lol). Well no shit, thanks for the advice.

As you say, the risk is not a temp outage for small users, the risk is your isp or host or whatever disowning you.

>But we don't even need a human brain. We already have those, they take months to grow, take forever to train

This is a weird argument considering LLMs are composed of the output of countless hours of human brains. That makes LLMs, by definition, logarithmically worse at learning.

We had... the cheap version of procurement? I mean... that's just fucking not true.

My ship threw tools and parts overboard before pulling into a long shipyard overhaul because they knew they would get more.

I knew shipyard workers who got told to come to work and do nothing so they could mark billable hours (worker gets paid, contract is making money on the workers hourly, so who loses? Not counting the dipshit American taxpayer, of course)

New equipment installed with copy and pasted filters, except new equipment has 100x flowrate so filters last weeks instead of years.

Whole system overhauls descoped from the shipyard maintenance plan so the ship could be delivered "early" and bonuses paid.

Cheney and Halliburton?

Stories too numerous to mention. Only someone who's never seen this up close could think we're doing the cost efficient, safe thing.

>doctors are shackled to guidelines

To expand, one of the coverage pillars of malpractice insurance (in the US) is the "standard of care". This is basically what most doctors and their associations consider acceptable, which by definition excludes new, better techniques.

This is both a bug and a feature. A move fast and break things philosophy would cause more harm than good, but it also prevents rapid adoption of incremental improvements.

Hear, hear!

I have long thought this, but not had as good way to put it as you did.

If you think about geniuses like Einstein and ramanujen, they understood things before they had the mathematical language to express them. LLMs are the opposite; they fail to understand things after untold effort, training data, and training.

So the question is, how intelligent are LLMs when you reduce their training data and training? Since they rapidly devolve into nonsense, the answer must be that they have no internal intelligence

Ever had the experience of helping someone who's chronically doing the wrong thing, to eventually find they had an incorrect assumption, an incorrect reasoning generating deterministic wrong answers? LLMs dont do that; they just lack understanding. They'll hallucinate unrelated things because they dont know what they're talking about - you may have also had this experience with someone :)

> but somewhat orthogonal to "what is the quickest way to solve the task currently in front of me."

That depends on if you ignore the future. You are never just solving the problem in front of you; you should always act in a way that propagates positivity forward in time.